Top 5 Reasons to Adopt Progressive Web Apps

PWA (Progressive Web App) brings out the best of both and gives users a fantastic experience.

PWA (Progressive Web App), the recent trend of the website development industry is the blend of mobile application and website. PWA brings out the best of both and gives users a fantastic experience while ensuring that it meets specific requirements to provide an app like feel. PWA holds the upper hand compared to apps as it uses the latest web features for an app like experience and has gained immense popularity in a very short span of time.

What is a PWA (Progressive Web App)?

PWA is a website which looks and performs like a mobile application and allows to work offline, send push notifications, add it to the Smartphone’s main screen and more. Do all you want from this progressive web app. It works smoothly even without a clear network and does hamper your working within the app.

Let’s have a look at some other benefits of adopting the PWA

1) Enhanced Performance

Progressive Web Apps are significantly faster than the mobile apps. The navigation of PWA is seamless, and its smooth animations make the use of the app livelier. One of the main reasons why users bounce from the website is because of its load time. Recently, Forbes adopted the PWA and experienced that PWA loads in 2.5 seconds compared to the previous 6.5 seconds of mobile site load time. Impression also increased by 10% per session .

2) Offline Mode

In this world of internet, things stop working without the internet connection. With PWA’s offline mode, the changes you make get saved automatically. For an offline page, all you need is a brand logo, product information and features you wish to highlight. The offline mode allows your customers to see the product catalog as well without any internet connectivity. It helps not only to keep the customer engaged but also in retaining them.

3) App-Like Feeling

Another highlight feature of the Progressive Web apps is they offer an app-like feeling, yet having all the features a website has along with dynamic data & access to the database. With a similar setting to the site, it makes it easier for customers to access other things they want to look.

4) No Download & Install Hassles

Unlike mobile apps, PWA does not have the hassles of download or install. Also, you need not go to the Google Play or App store as you can download the PWA through links on your device. You can also share the link with your friends through various social media platforms.

5) Better Customer Experience

The customers access the same version of your apps until they allow the auto update or install the latest version of the app from the app store. However, PWAs have uniformity across all the platforms and help you to deliver consistently dominant and enhanced experience to the users.